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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in distance learning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Sierra Leone to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education endeavours. Universities want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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